I see this from another angle. Yes, those with mild mental unwellness might be caught up in a trap for a bit...

BUT the real problem with the school shootings and similar events IS mental illness!

WHY? I think, as other experts do, that it's because in the USA WE HAVE NO MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM! You all know this, agree I'm sure and have even posted rants about lack of caring for mental un-wellness issues.

THIS will give it it's due focus imo. THIS should, if it comes to the proper results, give support and eventually (real) money to the problem of the lack of proper health care initiatives in this country!

Guns don't kill people. Guns don't make people violent.

People are the problem. The stats prove that the violence is not being committed by legal, law abiding gun owners. The violence is by those without permits, and sometimes --more often than not-- those people also have untreated mental illness. UNTREATED is the key.

We all know why so many haven't been treated for their mental illnesses...

Let's get behind these hearings... write our legislators... and tell them the WHY frustrated and angry and such mentally ill people go off this deep end and take it out on others... lack of good care.